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EJEMPLOS de DOCUMENTOS ESCRITOS EN ESCRITURA CUNEIFORME

DICCIONARIO Sumerio-acadio, Louvre AO7662.jpg

Description English: Sumerian-Akkadian lexicon, 16th volume of the 24-volume Urra=hubullu encyclopedia concerning stones and objects made in stone. Clay, middle 1st century BC (copy of a more ancient original). From Warka, ancient Uruk. Franais : Vocabulaire sumrien-akkadien, 16e volume de l'encyclopdie en 24 volumes Urra=hubullu, portant sur les pierres et les objets en pierre. Argile, milieu du Ier millnaire av. J.-C. (copie d'un original plus ancien). Provenance : Warka, ancienne Uruk. Date Current location (Inventory)Louvre Museum Muse du Louvre Native name Paris Location Coordinates 485137N 22015E / 48.860395N 2.337599E

2 Established 1793 www.louvre.fr Website Department of Near Eastern antiquities, Richelieu, ground floor, room 3, case 15 Accession number AO 7662 Credit line ,Purchase, 1920,Source/Photographer Marie-Lan Nguyen (User:Jastrow), 2009-01-14

British Museum Planisphere fragment.jpg

Description English: Fragment of a circular clay tablet with a record of constellations (planisphere), 4 curved + 13 lines of inscription and diagram, Neo-Assyrian. Date

3 24 June 2010 Current location British Museum http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:British_Museum_Planisphere_f ragment.jpg

00000000000 British Museum Cuneiform planisphere K8538.jpg

Part of a circular clay tablet with depictions of constellations (planisphere); the reverse is uninscribed; restored from fragments and incomplete; partly accidentally vitrified in antiquity during the destruction of the place where it was found. Found in Kuyunjik, ancient Nineveh, in the so-called Library of Ashurbanipal. Neo-assyrian period

Could this explain the fire and brimstone that fell from the sky in Genesis 19:24? More explained here.. A clay tablet that has baffled scientists for 150 years has been identified as a witnesss account of the asteroid suspected of being behind the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Researchers who cracked the cuneiform symbols on the Planisphere tablet believe that it recorded an asteroid thought to have been more than half a mile across. The tablet, found by Henry Layard in the remains of the library in the royal palace at Nineveh in the mid-19th century, is thought to be a 700 B.C. copy of notes made by a Sumerian astronomer watching the night sky. He referred to the asteroid as a white stone bowl approaching it vigorously swept along. and recorded it as

6 Using computers to recreate the night sky thousands of years ago, scientists have pinpointed his sighting to shortly before dawn on June 29 in the year 3123 B.C. About half the symbols on the tablet have survived and half of those refer to the asteroid. The other symbols record the positions of clouds and constellations. In the past 150 years scientists have made five unsuccessful attempts to translate the tablet. Mark Hempsell, one of the researchers from Bristol University who cracked the tablets code, said: Its a wonderful piece of observation, an absolutely perfect piece of science. He said the size and route of the asteroid meant that it was likely to have crashed into the Austrian Alps at Kfels. As it traveled close to the ground it would have left a trail of destruction from supersonic shock waves and then slammed into the Earth with a cataclysmic impact. Debris consisting of up to two-thirds of the asteroid would have been hurled back along its route and a flash reaching temperatures of 400 Centigrade (752 Fahrenheit) would have been created, killing anyone in its path. About one million sq kilometers (386,000 sq miles) would have been devastated and the impact would have been equivalent to more than 1,000 tons of TNT exploding. Dr Hempsall said that at least 20 ancient myths record devastation of the type and on the scale of the asteroids impact, including the Old Testament tale of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and the ancient Greek myth of how Phaeton, son of Helios, fell into the River Eridanus after losing control of his fathers sun chariot. The findings of Dr. Hempsall and Alan Bond, of Reaction Engines Ltd., are published in a book, A Sumerian Observation of the Kfels Impact Event. The researchers say that the asteroids impact would explain why at Kfels there is evidence of an ancient landslide 3 miles wide and a quarter of a mile thick. Tale of devastation Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of Heaven; and he overthrew those cities and all the valley, and all the inhabitants of the cities [Abraham] looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the valley, and beheld, and lo, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace. Source: Genesis 19:24-28 Source: http://www.sliceofscifi.com/2008/03/31/ ... -gomorrah/

Building plans Louvre AO338.jpg

Description English: Plans of a six-room building, a sanctuary or a private house. Clay, late 3rd millennium BC. From Telloh, ancient Girsu. Franais : Plan d'un btiment de six pices, un sanctuaire ou une maison prive. Argile, fin du IIIe millnaire av. J.-C. Provenance : Tello, ancienne Girsu. Date Dimensions H. 11 cm (4 in.), W. 9 cm (3 in.), D. 1.6 cm ( in.) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Building_plans_Louvre_AO338.jpg

Balance sheet Mesopotamia Louvre AO6036.jpg

Description English: Annual balance sheet of a State-owned farm, drawn-up by the scribe responsible for artisans: detailed account of raw materials and workdays for a basketry workshop. Clay, ca. 2040 BC (Ur III). Franais : Bilan annuel d'une exploitation agricole d'tat, tablie par le scribe des artisans : dcompte des matires premires et des jours de travail utiliss dans un atelier de vannerie. Argile, v. 2040 av. J.-C. (Ur III). Date Current location (Inventory)Louvre Museum

9 Muse du Louvre Native name Paris Location Coordinates 485137N 22015E / 48.860395N 2.337599E Established 1793 www.louvre.fr Website Department of Oriental Antiquities, Richelieu, ground floor, room 2 Accession number AO 6036 Credit line Purchase, 1912 Source/Photographer Marie-Lan Nguyen (2006) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Balance_sheet_Mesopotamia_Louvre_AO 6036.jpg 000000000000

Persian brick fragment from Marlik 1 REM.JPG

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Description English: Clay brick, UPSIDE-down, -mounted fragment written in cuneiform in the Elamite language (ca. 1000 BCE) from w:Marlik on display at the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in San Jose, California. (Horizontals are at the beginning of characters, and verticals comprise the right end of characters-(that have verticals, at the end).) 5 Lines of Elamite cuneiform: Line 1-(at bottom)Five cun. characters-(all end in verticals) Line 2-(probably 6 char.)-Undamaged middle character is a "vertical" w/median Horizontal following-(this is a common character for "me" (ma/me/mi/mu-No 'mo'-no o's in Akkadian/or Sumerian)) Line 3Line 4Line 5Date 27 January 2008 Source Own work